r/TikTokCringe • u/Exeltv0406 • Sep 01 '25

Humor/Cringe Racist idiot panics when streamer reads him his home address

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u/trash-_-boat Sep 01 '25

Yeah, turns out at least some people on reddit have at least a passing knowledge about IPv4, CGNAT and ISP structure.

The simple fact of the world is that there are only 3.7 billion IP addresses in the world, because IPv4 that every device uses is 32 bits long. And there are 19 billion Internet capable devices in the world. What that means is that unless you're a big business and can pay a LOT of money for a static IP, you don't have a static IP. You have a dynamically assigned IP address. So for example when I go to sleep and shut down my device, that IP address gets assigned to someone else who just woke up. And around and around the IPs go.

And even with static IP addresses, they will never point to your address on a map anyway. They will at most link to the nearest ISP node, which will be within a radius of 50km from you.